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18 2021 April
29 - <b
>GNU nano
5.7</b
> "Toți ceilalți arau câmpurile"
21 <li
>The output of
<tt
>--constantshow
</tt
> (without
<tt
>--minibar
</tt
>) is more stable
.</li
>
22 <li
>When opening multiple buffers
and there is an error message
, this
<br
>
23 message is shown again upon first
switch to the relevant buffer
.</li
>
24 <li
>The position
and size of the indicator now follow actual lines
,<br
>
25 instead of visual lines when in softwrap mode
, meaning that the
<br
>
26 size of the indicator can change when scrolling in softwrap mode
.</li
>
27 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
30 2021 March
3 - <b
>GNU nano
5.6.1</b
> "Geelgors"
33 <li
>Search matches are properly colorized in softwrap mode too
.</li
>
34 <li
>Option
'highlightcolor' has been renamed to
'spotlightcolor'.</li
>
35 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
38 2021 February
24 - <b
>GNU nano
5.6</b
> "Wielewaal"
41 <li
>A search match gets
highlighted (in black on yellow by
default),<br
>
42 in addition to placing the cursor at the start of the match
.<br
>
43 The color combination can be changed with
'set highlightcolor'.<br
>
44 By
default the cursor is hidden until the next keystroke
, but
<br
>
45 it can be forced on with
<tt
>--showcursor
</tt
> / 'set showcursor'.</li
>
46 <li
>Option
<tt
>--markmatch
</tt
> / 'set markmatch' has been removed
.</li
>
47 <li
>Cursor position
and character code are displayed in the minibar
<br
>
48 only when option
<tt
>--constantshow
</tt
> / 'set constantshow' is used
,<br
>
49 and their display can be toggled with
<tt
>M
-C
</tt
>.</li
>
50 <li
>The state flags are displayed in the minibar only when option
<br
>
51 <tt
>--stateflags
</tt
> / 'set stateflags' is used
.</li
>
52 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
55 2021 January
14 - <b
>GNU nano
5.5</b
> "Rebecca"
58 <li
>Option
'set minibar' makes nano suppress the title bar
and instead
<br
>
59 show a bar with basic editing information at the bottom
: file name
<br
>
60 (plus an asterisk when the buffer is modified
), the cursor position
<br
>
61 (line
,column
), the character under the
cursor (U+xxxx
), the flags
<br
>
62 that
<tt
>--stateflags
</tt
> normally shows
, plus the percentage of the buffer
<br
>
63 that is above the cursor
.</li
>
64 <li
>With
'set promptcolor' the color combination of the prompt bar can
<br
>
65 be changed
, to allow contrasting it with the mini
bar (which always
<br
>
66 has the same color
as the title bar
).</li
>
67 <li
>Option
'set markmatch' highlights the result of a successful search
<br
>
68 by putting the mark at the end of the match
, making the match more
<br
>
69 visible
. It also suppresses the cursor until the next keystroke
.<br
>
70 (If you dislike the hiding of the cursor
, use 'set showcursor'.)</li
>
71 <li
>The bindable toggle
'nowrap' has been renamed to
'breaklonglines',<br
>
72 to match the corresponding option
, like
for all other toggles
.</li
>
73 <li
>Support
for Slang has been removed
.</li
>
74 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
77 2020 December
2 - <b
>GNU nano
5.4</b
> "Terre des hommes"
80 <li
>Moving the cursor now skips over combining
characters (and<br
>
81 other zero
-width characters
). Deleting a character deletes
<br
>
82 also any succeeding zero
-width characters
, but backspacing
<br
>
83 deletes just one character at a time
.</li
>
84 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
87 2020 October
7 - <b
>GNU nano
5.3</b
> "Revolution!"
90 <li
>Option
'set stateflags' makes nano show the state of auto
-indenting
,<br
>
91 the mark
, hard
-wrapping
, macro recording
, and soft
-wrapping in the
<br
>
92 title bar
. The flags take the place of
"Modified", and a modified
<br
>
93 buffer is instead indicated by an
asterisk (*) after its name
.</li
>
94 <li
>Nano no longer by
default tries using libmagic to determine the type
<br
>
95 of a
file (when neither filename nor first line gave a clue
), because
<br
>
96 in most cases it is a waste of time
. It requires using the option
<br
>
97 <tt
>--magic
</tt
> or <tt
>-!</tt
> or 'set magic' to make nano
try libmagic
.</li
>
98 <li
>The color of the indicator can be changed with
'set scrollercolor'.</li
>
99 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
102 2020 August
24 - <b
>GNU nano
5.2</b
> "Ranrapalca"
105 <li
>Making certain replacements after a large paste does not crash
.</li
>
106 <li
>Hitting a toggle at the Search prompt does not clear the answer
.</li
>
107 <li
>Using
<tt
>--positionlog
</tt
> does not complain at the first start
.</li
>
108 <li
>A macro containing a Search command will not sometimes fail
.</li
>
109 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
112 2020 August
12 - <b
>GNU nano
5.1</b
> "Cantabria"
115 <li
><tt
>M
-Bsp
</tt
> (Alt+Backspace
) deletes a word backwards
, like in Bash
.</li
>
116 <li
><tt
>M
-[</tt
> has become bindable
. (Be careful
, though
: as it is the
<br
>
117 starting combination of many escape sequences
, avoid gluing
<br
>
118 it together with other keystrokes
, like in a macro
.)</li
>
119 <li
>With
<tt
>--indicator
</tt
> and <tt
>--softwrap
</tt
>, the first keystroke in an
<br
>
120 empty buffer does not crash
.</li
>
121 <li
>Invoking the formatter
while text is marked does not crash
.</li
>
122 <li
>In UTF
-8 locales
, an anchor is shown
as a diamond
.</li
>
123 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
126 2020 July
29 - <b
>GNU nano
5.0</b
> "Among the fields of barley"
129 <li
>With
<tt
>--indicator
</tt
> (or <tt
>-q
</tt
> or 'set indicator') nano will show a kind
<br
>
130 of scrollbar on the righthand side of the screen to indicate where
<br
>
131 in the buffer the viewport is located
and how much it covers
.</li
>
132 <li
>With
<
;Alt+Insert
>
; any line can be
"tagged" with an anchor
, and<br
>
133 <
;Alt+PageUp
>
; and <
;Alt+PageDown
>
; will jump to the nearest anchor
.<br
>
134 When using line numbers
, an anchor is shown
as "+" in the margin
.</li
>
135 <li
>The Execute Command prompt is now directly accessible from the
<br
>
136 main
menu (with
<tt
>^T
</tt
>, replacing the Spell Checker
). The Linter
,<br
>
137 Formatter
, Spell Checker
, Full Justification
, Suspension
, and<br
>
138 Cut
-Till
-End functions are available in this menu too
.</li
>
139 <li
>On terminals that support at least
256 colors
, nine
new color
<br
>
140 names are available
: pink
, purple
, mauve
, lagoon
, mint
, lime
,<br
>
141 peach
, orange
, and latte
. These
do not have lighter versions
.</li
>
142 <li
>For the color names red
, green
, blue
, yellow
, cyan
, magenta
,<br
>
143 white
, and black
, the prefix
'light' gives a brighter color
.<br
>
144 Prefix
'bright' is deprecated
, as it means both bold
AND light
.</li
>
145 <li
>All color names can be preceded with
"bold," and/or "italic,"<br
>
146 (in that order
) to get a bold
and/or italic typeface
.</li
>
147 <li
>With
<tt
>--bookstyle
</tt
> (or <tt
>-O
</tt
> or 'set bookstyle') nano considers any
<br
>
148 line that begins with whitespace
as the start of a paragraph
.</li
>
149 <li
>Refreshing the screen with
<tt
>^L
</tt
> now works in every menu
.</li
>
150 <li
>In the main menu
, <tt
>^L
</tt
> also centers the line with the cursor
.</li
>
151 <li
>Toggling the help lines with
<tt
>M
-X
</tt
> now works in all menus except
<br
>
152 in the help viewer
and the linter
.</li
>
153 <li
>At a filename prompt
, the first
<
;Tab
>
; lists the possibilities
,<br
>
154 and these are listed near the bottom instead of near the top
.</li
>
155 <li
>Bindable
function 'curpos' has been renamed to
'location'.</li
>
156 <li
>Long option
<tt
>--tempfile
</tt
> has been renamed to
<tt
>--saveonexit
</tt
>.</li
>
157 <li
>Short option
<tt
>-S
</tt
> is now a synonym of
<tt
>--softwrap
</tt
>.</li
>
158 <li
>The
New Buffer
toggle (<tt
>M
-F
</tt
>) has become non
-persistent
. Options
<br
>
159 <tt
>--multibuffer
</tt
> and 'set multibuffer' still make it
default to on
.</li
>
160 <li
>Backup files will retain their group
ownership (when possible
).</li
>
161 <li
>Data is synced to disk before
"... lines written" is shown
.</li
>
162 <li
>The raw escape sequences
for <tt
>F13
</tt
> to
<tt
>F16
</tt
> are no longer recognized
.</li
>
163 <li
>Distro
-specific syntaxes
, and syntaxes of less common languages
,<br
>
164 have been moved down to subdirectory syntax
/extra
/. The affected
<br
>
165 distros
and others may wish to move wanted syntaxes one level up
.</li
>
166 <li
>Syntaxes
for Markdown
, Haskell
, and Ada were added
.</li
>
167 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
170 2020 May
23 - <b
>GNU nano
4.9.3</b
> "Almendras"
173 One more bug introduced in version
4.9 is fixed
: a crash when
<br
>
174 the terminal screen is resized
while at a lock
-file prompt
.
178 2020 April
7 - <b
>GNU nano
4.9.2</b
> "Mali Lošinj"
181 Another bug introduced in version
4.9 is fixed
: a likely crash
<br
>
182 after undoing an
<
;Enter
>
; at the end of leading whitespace
.
186 2020 March
31 - <b
>GNU nano
4.9.1</b
> "Sapperdeflap"
189 Two bugs introduced in version
4.9 are fixed
: the cursor
<br
>
190 getting misplaced when undoing line cuts
, and filtering
<br
>
191 of the whole buffer to a
new buffer not working
.
195 2020 March
24 - <b
>GNU nano
4.9</b
> "die fetten Jahre sind vorbei"
198 <li
>When justifying a selection
, the
new paragraph
and the
<br
>
199 succeeding one get the appropriate first
-line indent
.</li
>
200 <li
>Trying to justify an
empty selection does not crash
.</li
>
201 <li
>Redoing the insertion of an
empty file does not crash
.</li
>
202 <li
>On the BSDs
and macOS
, <tt
>^H
</tt
> has become rebindable again
<br
>
203 (in most terminal emulators
, not on the console
).</li
>
204 <li
>DOS line endings in nanorc files are accepted
.</li
>
205 <li
>Option
<tt
>--suspend
</tt
> / 'set suspend' has been renamed to
<br
>
206 the more logical
<tt
>--suspendable
</tt
> / 'set suspendable'.</li
>
207 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
210 2020 February
7 - <b
>GNU nano
4.8</b
> "Jaška"
213 <li
>When something is pasted into nano
, auto
-indentation is suppressed
,<br
>
214 and the paste can be undone
as a whole with a single
<tt
>M
-U
</tt
>.</li
>
215 <li
>When a lock file is encountered during startup
, pressing
<tt
>^C
</tt
>/Cancel
<br
>
216 quits nano
. (Pressing
'No' just skips the file
and continues
.)</li
>
217 <li
>Shift+Meta+letter key combos can be bound with
'bind Sh-M-letter'.<br
>
218 Making any such binding dismisses the
default behavior of ignoring
<br
>
219 Shift
for all Meta+letter keystrokes
.</li
>
220 <li
>The configuration option
<tt
>--with
-slang
</tt
> (to be avoided when possible
)<br
>
221 can now be used only together with
<tt
>--enable
-tiny
</tt
>.</li
>
222 <li
>A custom nanorc file can be specified on the command line
, with
<br
>
223 <tt
>-f filename
</tt
> or <tt
>--rcfile
=filename
</tt
>.</li
>
224 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
227 2019 December
23 - <b
>GNU nano
4.7</b
> "Havikskruid"
230 <li
>A
<
;Tab
>
; will indent a marked region only when mark
and cursor are
<br
>
231 on different lines
.</li
>
232 <li
>Two
indentations (any mix of tabs
and spaces
) are considered the
<br
>
233 same when they look the
same (that is
: indent to the same level
).</li
>
234 <li
>When using
<tt
>--breaklonglines
</tt
> or <tt
>^J
</tt
>, a line will never be broken in
<br
>
235 its leading whitespace
or quoting
.</li
>
236 <li
>The keywords in nanorc files must be in lowercase
.</li
>
237 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
240 2019 November
29 - <b
>GNU nano
4.6</b
> "And don't you eat that yellow snow"
243 <li
>The
'formatter' command has returned
, bound by
default to
<tt
>M
-F
</tt
>.<br
>
244 It allows running a syntax
-specific command on the contents of
<br
>
246 <li
><tt
>^T
</tt
> will
try to run
'hunspell' before
'spell', because it checks
<br
>
247 spellling
for the locale
's language and understands UTF-8.</li>
248 <li>Multiple errors or warnings on startup will no longer slow nano<br>
249 down but will be indicated on the status bar with trailing dots.</li>
250 </ul></td></tr></table>
253 2019 October 4 - <b>GNU nano 4.5</b> "Košice"
256 <li>The new 'tabgives
' command allows you to specify per syntax what<br>
257 the <Tab> key should produce: some spaces, a hard TAB, ...</li>
258 <li>The output of <tt>--help</tt> is properly aligned again for all languages.</li>
259 <li><Tab> will indent a marked region also when <tt>M-}</tt> has been rebound.</li>
260 </ul></td></tr></table>
263 2019 August 25 - <b>GNU nano 4.4</b> "Hagelslag"
266 <li>At startup, the cursor can be put on the first or last occurrence<br>
267 of a string by preceding the filename with <tt>+/string</tt> or <tt>+?string</tt>.</li>
268 <li>When automatic hard-wrapping occurs (<tt>--breaklonglines</tt>), any leading<br>
269 quoting characters will be automatically copied to the new line.</li>
270 <li><tt>M-6</tt> works again also when the cursor is at end of buffer.</li>
271 </ul></td></tr></table>
274 2019 June 18 - <b>GNU nano 4.3</b> "Musa Kart"
277 <li>The ability to read from and write to a FIFO has been regained.</li>
278 <li>Startup time is reduced by fully parsing a syntax only when needed.</li>
279 <li>Asking for help (<tt>^G</tt>) when using <tt>--operatingdir</tt> does not crash.</li>
280 <li>The reading of a huge or slow file can be stopped with <tt>^C</tt>.</li>
281 <li>Cut, zap, and copy operations are undone separately when intermixed.</li>
282 <li><tt>M-D</tt> reports the correct number of lines (zero for an empty buffer).</li>
283 </ul></td></tr></table>
286 2019 April 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.2</b> "Tax the rich, pay the teachers"
289 <li>The integrated spell checker does not crash when 'spell
' is missing.</li>
290 <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> works also when <tt>--ignorercfiles</tt> is used.</li>
291 <li>Automatic hard-wrapping is more persistent in pushing words to the<br>
292 same overflow line.</li>
293 </ul></td></tr></table>
296 2019 April 15 - <b>GNU nano 4.1</b> "Qué corchos será eso?"
299 <li>By default, a newline character is again automatically added at the<br>
300 end of a buffer, to produce valid POSIX text files by default, but<br>
301 also to get back the easy adding of text at the bottom.</li>
302 <li>The now unneeded option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) has been removed.</li>
303 <li>Syntax files are read in alphabetical order when globbing, so that<br>
304 the precedence of syntaxes becomes predictable.</li>
305 <li>In the C syntax, preprocessor directives are highlighted differently.</li>
306 <li><tt>M-S</tt> now toggles soft wrapping, and <tt>M-N</tt> toggles line numbers.</li>
307 <li>The jumpy-scrolling toggle has been removed.</li>
308 <li>The legacy keystrokes <tt>^W^Y</tt> and <tt>^W^V</tt> are recognized again.</li>
309 <li>Executing an external command is disallowed when in view mode.</li>
310 <li>Problems with resizing during external or speller commands were fixed.</li>
311 </ul></td></tr></table>
314 2019 March 24 - <b>GNU nano 4.0</b> "Thy Rope of Sands"
317 <li>An overlong line is no longer automatically hard-wrapped.</li>
318 <li>Smooth scrolling (one line at a time) has become the default.</li>
319 <li>A newline character is no longer automatically added at end of buffer.</li>
320 <li>The line below the title bar is by default part of the editing space.</li>
321 <li>Option <tt>--breaklonglines</tt> (<tt>-b</tt>) turns automatic hard-wrapping back on.</li>
322 <li>Option <tt>--jumpyscrolling</tt> (<tt>-j</tt>) gives the chunky, half-screen scrolling.</li>
323 <li>Option <tt>--finalnewline</tt> (<tt>-f</tt>) brings back the automatic newline at EOF.</li>
324 <li>Option <tt>--emptyline</tt> (<tt>-e</tt>) leaves the line below the title bar unused.</li>
325 <li><Alt+Up> and <Alt+Down> now do a linewise scroll instead of a findnext.</li>
326 <li>Any number of justifications can be undone (like all other operations).</li>
327 <li>When marked text is justified, it becomes a single, separate paragraph.</li>
328 <li>Option <tt>--guidestripe=<number></tt> draws a vertical bar at the given column.</li>
329 <li>Option <tt>--fill=<number></tt> no longer turns on automatic hard-wrapping.</li>
330 <li>When a line continues offscreen, it now ends with a highlighted ">".</li>
331 <li>The halves of a split two-column character are shown as "[" and "]".</li>
332 <li>A line now scrolls horizontally one column earlier.</li>
333 <li>The bindable functions 'cutwordleft
' and 'cutwordright
' were renamed<br>
334 to 'chopwordleft
' and 'chopwordright
' as they don't
use the cutbuffer
.</li
>
335 <li
>The paragraph
-jumping functions were moved from Search to Go
-to
-Line
.</li
>
336 <li
>Option
<tt
>--rebinddelete
</tt
> is able to compensate
for more misbindings
.</li
>
337 <li
>Options
<tt
>--morespace
</tt
> and <tt
>--smooth
</tt
> are obsolete
and thus ignored
.</li
>
338 <li
>The
<tt
>--disable
-wrapping
-as-root
</tt
> configure option was removed
.</li
>
339 </ul
></td
></tr
></table
>
346 GNU nano
3.2 "Het kromme hout" changes the
default binding
347 for the linter to M
-B so that the spell
checker (^T
) can
348 always be used
, and changes (when linting
) the text in the
349 title bar
and the color of the status bar to make linting
350 mode more obvious
. It also adds a bindable
'zap' function
351 for deleting a line
or marked region without changing the
352 cutbuffer
, adds
--zap to bind the
<
;Del
>
; and <
;Backspace
>
;
353 keys to the zap
function when something is marked
, and
354 hard
-binds
<
;Alt+Del
>
; to
'zap'. Furthermore
, it shows the
355 cursor also in the help
viewer (when
--showcursor is used
),
356 renames the bindable functions
'prevhistory' to
'older' and
357 'nexthistory' to
'newer' (update your nanorcs when needed
),
358 reads the nanorc files also in restricted mode to allow
359 customization by the
user (if this should not be allowed
,
360 use --ignorercfiles in addition to
--restricted
), allows
361 in view mode to open also other
files (if this should not
362 be allowed
, use --restricted in addition to
--view
), makes
363 resizes respect a relative
--fill again
, no longer binds
364 F13
...F15 by
default, properly re
-highlights a misspelled
365 word after invoking help in the internal spell checker
,
366 and does not skip Unicode characters in
string binds
.
372 GNU nano
3.1 "Je faisais des bonds comme ça!" fixes a
373 misbinding of ^H on some terminals
and some systems
,
374 does not leave stray stuff after the prompt upon
exit
375 when having suspended nano
while using
--constantshow
,
376 and does not allow to toggle to Replace in view mode
.
382 GNU nano
3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the
383 reading of a file by seventy percent
, roughly doubles the
384 speed of handling ASCII text
, changes the way words at line
385 boundaries are deleted
, makes
<
;Ctrl+Delete
>
; wipe the next
386 word
and <
;Ctrl+Shift+Delete
>
; the preceding word
, binds M
-Q
387 to
'findprevious' by
default (the Tabs
-to
-Spaces toggle is
388 placed on M
-O
, and the More
-Space toggle is fully removed
),
389 makes an external spell check undoable
, shows the correct
390 number of lines on the status bar when opening multiple
391 files
, removes the
'formatter' command
, removes the
392 'searchagain' bindable
function (M
-W is now bound to
393 'findnext' by
default), moves the No
-Convert toggle to the
394 Insert menu
, removes the Backup
and New-Buffer toggles from
395 the main
menu (they remain in the Write
-Out
and Insert
396 menus
, respectively
), is more precise in what it accepts
as
397 a rebindable key name
, ignores any presses of
<
;Esc
>
; before
398 a valid command keystroke
, recognizes some more escape
399 sequences
for modified editing
-pad keys
, does not hide
400 rcfile error messages on a Linux console
, renames the
401 bindable functions
'copytext' to
'copy' and 'uncut' to
402 'paste', and avoids a possible hang during a Full
-Justify
.
408 GNU nano
2.9.8 "Espresso" brings the ability to filter the
409 buffer (or the marked region
) through an external command
410 (^R^X
and prefix the command with the pipe symbol
, "|"), is
411 better at detecting
and maintaining paragraphs
, is able to
412 justify
//-style comments, fixes a crash when the binding
413 of a key to a
string lacks a closing quote
, gives feedback
414 about the number of lines written also when prepending
or
415 appending
, and fixes a couple of bugs with the linter
.
421 GNU nano
2.9.7 "Hvide Sande" adds the option
'--afterends'
422 for making Ctrl+
Right (the nextword
function) stop at word
423 ends instead of beginnings
, accepts multibyte letters
for
424 the Yes
/No
/All answers
, does emergency saves of changed
425 buffers in the unlikely event that nano crashes
, adds the
426 until
-now missing bindable
function 'linenumbers', and
427 renames the toggles
'constupdate' to
'constantshow' and
428 'cuttoend' to
'cutfromcursor', for consistency with the
429 corresponding options
-- adjust your nanorc files soon
.
435 GNU nano
2.9.6 "Gomance" fixes a crash in word completion
,
436 makes
--enable
-altrcname work again
, improves the fluidity
437 of scrolling when using the touchpad
, tweaks the syntaxes
438 for shell scripts
and PO files
, makes a replacing session
439 go always forward by
default, no longer inserts a newline
440 after an external spell check of a selected region
, always
441 accepts the English Y
and N (and A
) at a yes
-no prompt in
442 any locale
, and solves a few hypothetical bugs
.
448 GNU nano
2.9.5 "Kiša pada" changes the way the Scroll
-Up
449 and Scroll
-Down commands
work (M
-- and M
-+
): instead of
450 keeping the cursor in the same screen position they now
451 keep the cursor in the same text
position (if possible
).
452 This version further adds a
new color name
, "normal",
453 which gives the
default foreground
or background color
,
454 which is useful when you want to undo some overzealous
455 painting by earlier syntax regexes
. Bug fixes
include:
456 a segfault when trying to insert a file in restricted
457 mode
, the reading in of a
new file being
"undoable", a
458 slight miswrapping of help texts when
--linenumbers was
459 used
, and the shell syntax coloring the word
"tar" in
466 GNU nano
2.9.4 "Isabel" allows binding a key to a
string
467 (any piece of text
and/or commands
), permits customizing
468 the color of error messages with
'set errorcolor', colors
469 those error messages by
default in bright white on red
,
470 makes
<
;Enter
>
; at the bottom of the screen scroll just one
471 row when
--smooth is used
, does not fail when redoing a
472 file insertion
, and cancels a Shift
-selection when any
473 cursor key is pressed without Shift even when the cursor
474 cannot move
. Further
, it treats tabs fully the same
as
475 spaces when doing automatic hard
-wrapping
, allows syntax
476 names to be unquoted
, and removes two deprecated options
477 and six deprecated bindable
function names
.
483 GNU nano
2.9.3 "Córdoba" fixes a segfault with trimblanks
484 that could occur when a typed space caused the word after
485 it to be pushed to the next line
. It further makes macros
486 work also when your keyboard still emits escape sequences
,
487 adds the options
-M
and --trimblanks
for the command line
,
488 recognizes key combos with Shift on a few more terminals
,
489 no longer shows dots in certain prompt texts when visible
490 whitespace is turned on
, fixes two corner cases when doing
491 replacements in a marked region
, allows to open a named
492 pipe again when using
--noread
, and accurately detects
493 a needed color change when a line contains a start match
494 but not a corresponding end match any more
. Plus some
501 GNU nano
2.9.2 "Pussy Riot" correctly displays the Modified
502 state when undoing
/redoing (also when the file was saved
503 somewhere midway
), improves the undoing of an automatic
504 linefeed at EOF
, fixes a build issue on the BSDs
, shows
505 the cursor again when compiled with
--withslang
, renames
506 the option
'justifytrim' to
'trimblanks' because it will
507 now snip trailing whitespace also
while you are typing
508 (and hard
-wrapping is enabled
), continues pushing words
509 to the next line much
longer (when hard
-wrapping
), makes
510 <
;Tab
>
; and <
;Shift+Tab
>
; indent
and unindent a marked region
,
511 allows unindenting when not all lines are indented
, lets a
512 region marked with Shift persist when indenting
/unindenting
513 or commenting
/uncommenting it
, and in those cases excludes
514 the last line of the region when it is not visibly marked
515 (which makes
for a more intuitive behavior
).
521 GNU nano
2.9.1 "Damyatta" fixes a bug where
, when the mark
522 is on
, ^S would overwrite the file with just the marked
523 region
. This release further clears the
"Modified" flag
524 when all edits are undone
, adds
or updates some magic
525 strings
, and does not forget when the cursor was last
532 GNU nano
2.9.0 "Eta" introduces the ability to record
and
533 replay
keystrokes (M
-: to start
and stop recording
, M
-;
534 to play the macro back
), makes ^Q
and ^S
do something
535 useful by
default (^Q starts a backward search
, and ^S
536 saves the current file
), changes ^W to start always a
537 forward search
, shows the number of open
buffers (when
538 more than one
) in the title bar
, no longer asks to press
539 Enter when there are errors in an rc file
, retires the
540 options
'--quiet' and 'set quiet' and 'set backwards',
541 makes indenting
and unindenting undoable
, will look in
542 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME for a nanorc file
and in
$XDG_DATA_HOME
543 for the history files
, adds a history stack
for executed
544 commands (^R^X
), does not overwrite the position
-history
545 file of another nano
, and fixes a score of tiny bugs
.
551 GNU nano
2.8.7 "Fragrance" fixes a lockup when tabs are
552 wider than the screen
, makes indenting + unindenting
553 more predictable by retaining relative indentations
,
554 allows
pasting (^U
) at a prompt
, allows triple quotes
555 in Python to not be followed by a character
, does not
556 scroll three pages on a roll of the mouse wheel
, binds
557 Alt+Up
and Alt+Down to findprevious
and findnext
, and
558 fixes some hard
-to
-describe issues with softwrapping
559 and boundary
-crossing tabs
. Enjoy
.
565 GNU nano
2.8.6 "Kekulé" offers a
new feature
: the ability
566 to
do softwrapping between words
-- at whitespace
--
567 instead of always at the edge of the screen
. This can
568 be activated with
-a
or --atblanks
or 'set atblanks'
569 together with the softwrap option
. This release further
570 fixes a handful of rare display glitches
, fixes a build
571 failure on AIX
, harmonizes the quoting rules in the rc
572 files
, and renames the option
'cut' to
'cutfromcursor'
573 (please update your nanorc files before
2020).
579 GNU nano
2.8.5 "Farouche" avoids a crash when waking from
580 a suspension that was induced from the outside
, allows
581 negative line
and column numbers on the command line
,
582 avoids some flickering when resizing the screen
while
583 in the file browser
, opens files in the order they were
584 mentioned on the command line
, and does not pretend to
585 have woken from suspension when receiving a SIGCONT
.
591 GNU nano
2.8.4 "Our Version of Events" includes the nanorc
598 GNU nano
2.8.3 "Hirsch" fixes a misplacement of the spotlight
599 during interactive replacing
, avoids build failures on AIX
600 and Solaris
, fixes a crash on Solaris
, speeds up backwards
601 searching
, improves PHP syntax highlighting
, and no longer
602 asks
"save anyway?" when the user ^Q discards the buffer
.
608 GNU nano
2.8.2 "Krats" adds another
new feature
: it makes
609 the ^G help texts searchable with ^W
. Apart from that
,
610 it fixes a crash when resizing the window in the middle
611 of verbatim input
, avoids an unlikely crash when used
612 without UTF
-8 support in some locales
, avoids redrawing
613 the screen twice when switching between buffers
while
614 line numbers are active
, and works around a coloring
615 bug on musl
. Plus tweaks to the documentation
; plus
616 translation updates
for fifteen languages
.
622 GNU nano
2.8.1 "Ellert" fixes build failures on MacOS
and
623 on musl
, fixes scrolling problems in softwrap mode when
624 double-width characters on row boundaries are involved
,
625 shows
double-width characters
as ">" and "<" when split
626 across two rows
, moves the cursor more
predictably (at
627 the cost of sometimes putting it on the second
"half"
628 of a character
), avoids creating lines that consist of
629 only blanks when using autoindent
, makes ^Home
and ^End
630 go to the start
and end of the
file (on terminals that
631 support those keystrokes
), places the cursor better when
632 linting
, lets the linter ask only once whether to open
633 an included file
, and adds bindings
for ^Up
and ^Down
634 in the file browser
. Don
't sit on your hands.
640 GNU nano 2.8.0 "Axat" makes it easier to move around in
641 softwrapped lines: the Up and Down keys now step from
642 visual row to visual row instead of jumping between
643 logical lines, and the Home and End keys now move to
644 the start and end of a row, and only when already
645 there, then to the start and end of the logical line.
646 Furthermore, the screen can now scroll per row instead
647 of always per logical line. On an entirely different
648 front: nano now makes use of gnulib, to make it build
649 on more platforms. In short: there were many internal
650 changes, not many user-visible ones (apart form the
651 new softwrap navigation). The conversion to gnulib
652 was done by Mike Frysinger, the softwrap overhaul by
659 GNU nano 2.7.5 "Nijntje" can properly search and replace
660 the \B and \b regex anchors, correctly repaints things
661 when multiline regexes with identical start and end are
662 involved, fixes a crash with zero-length regex matches,
663 does replacements at the edges of a marked region right,
664 no longer hides double-width characters at the head of
665 softwrapped rows, displays at most three warnings at
666 startup, and documents the ability to read a file from
667 standard input. Come tickle my ears.
673 GNU nano 2.7.4 "Red dress" undoes deletions in an orderly
674 manner again (bug was introduced in previous version),
675 sets the preferred x position for vertical movements
676 more consistently, avoids some scrolling problems in
677 softwrap mode, installs the Info manual also when your
678 system lacks 'makeinfo
', and corrects the behavior of
679 the beginning-of-word anchor (\<) in regex searches.
685 GNU nano 2.7.3 "Ontbijtkoek" wipes away a handful of bugs:
686 your editor is now able to handle filenames that contain
687 newlines, avoids a brief flash of color when switching
688 between buffers that are governed by different syntaxes,
689 makes the Shift+Ctrl+Arrow keys select text again on a
690 Linux console, is more resistant against malformations
691 in the positionlog file, and does not crash when ^C is
692 typed on systems where it produces the code KEY_CANCEL.
693 Oh, and it no longer mistakenly warns about editing an
694 unlocked file just after saving a new one. That's it
.
695 Tastes great with thick butter
.
701 GNU nano
2.7.2 "Shemesh! Shemesh!" brings another feature
:
702 the ability to complete with one
keystroke (^
] by
default)
703 a fragment of a word to a full word existing elsewhere in
704 the current buffer
. Besides
, this release fixes two bugs
705 related to using line numbers in softwrap mode
, allows to
706 use the PageUp
and PageDown keys together with Shift on
707 VTE
-based terminals
, stops the help lines from flickering
708 during interactive replacing
, makes a
'set fill' override
709 an earlier
'set nowrap', properly restores the selected
710 region after an external spell check
, and improves a few
711 other tidbits
. If you should find any more bugs
, please
712 run
'man nano | grep bugs' and report them there
.
718 GNU nano
2.7.1 "Leuven" adds an often
-asked
-for feature
: the
719 ability to display line numbers beside the text
. This can
720 be activated with
-l
or --linenumbers on the command line
,
721 or with
'set linenumbers' in your nanorc
, or toggled with
722 M
-#. The coloring of these numbers can be chosen via the
723 option
'set numbercolor'. This release furthermore fixes
724 some bugs with scrolling in softwrap mode
, is more strict
725 in the parsing of key rebindings
, and marks a
new buffer
726 as modified when the output of a
command (^R ^X
) has been
727 read into it
. Come
and check it out
!
733 GNU nano
2.7.0 "Suni" adds a
new feature
: allowing text to be
734 selected by holding Shift together with the cursor keys
.
735 Besides that
, nano now works also when run in very tiny
736 terminals (down to one line
, one column
), and improves
737 the handling of the prompt in cramped spaces
. Not much
,
738 but it
's time to get it out there.
740 With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while
741 we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd,
742 back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass.
748 nano 2.6.3 "Marika" makes the Ctrl+Arrow keys work also on
749 a Linux virtual console, takes as verbatim only the very
750 first keystroke after M-V, removes any lock files that it
751 holds when dying, doesn't abort when a word contains digits
752 (when using the
default speller
), fixes a small sorting bug
753 in the file browser
, makes searching
case-insensitively in
754 a UTF
-8 locale a little faster
, and doesn
't enter invalid
755 bytes when holding down both Alt keys. Santé!
761 nano 2.6.2 "Le vent nous portera" adds two new features: the
762 keystrokes Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down for jumping between blocks
763 of text, and the option 'wordchars
' for specifying which
764 characters (beside alphanumeric ones) should be considered
765 word-forming. Further, it provides feedback during Unicode
766 input (M-V followed by a six-digit hexadecimal number which
767 must start with 0 or 10), avoids a crash when resizing the
768 window during Verbatim input, doesn't drop a keystroke after
769 having been suspended
, and replaces the beginning
-of
-line
770 anchor (^
) just once per line
. There are also several tiny
771 improvements in screen rendering
and key handling
.
772 Come get your hair tousled
!
778 nano
2.6.1 "Stampede" is chiefly a translation update
, but also
779 adds one little
feature (the ability to
use negative numbers
780 with Go To Line
: -1 meaning the first line from the bottom
),
781 includes syntax highlighting
for Rust
, and fixes three tiny
782 bugs (but in such far corners of the editor that they aren
't
783 even worth mentioning).
789 nano 2.6.0 "Rubicon" fixes more than fifty little bugs -- and
790 some of them not so little. It improves moving about in
791 the file browser, corrects failings of the internal spell
792 checker, adds a new feature (comment/uncomment lines, with
793 default binding M-3), makes some error messages clearer,
794 shows more of a file when positionlog is used and the cursor
795 is near the end, displays all error messages at startup if
796 there are multiple ones, does not misinterpret keystrokes
797 when typing very fast, is less eager to trim the filename
798 on narrow terminals, speeds up case-insensitive searches,
799 and allows to abort re-searches. Among bunches of other
800 things. It is worth the trouble to upgrade.
802 And, with this release, we take leave of the herd...
803 Bye! And thanks for all the grass!
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